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#1 2006-01-17 01:20:13

flox

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Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 2

URL rewriting without mod_rewrite [solution]

My hosting provider is “www.free.fr”.
It does not support Apache module “mod_rewrite”.

I googled and I hacked some files. And I finally found a “nice and efficient” solution:
(solution for TXP 4.0.3)

1. Replace the ‘/.htaccess’ file with this single line:
<code> ErrorDocument 404 /</code>
If it does not work, you can try:
<code> ErrorDocument 404 /index.php</code>
or if textpattern is installed in a sub-directory:
<code> ErrorDocument 404 /subdir/index.php</code>

2. Add a line in ‘/index.php’ file, before line {<code>include $txpcfg[‘txpath’].’/publish.php’;</code>} :
<code> header(‘Status: 200 OK’); header(‘HTTP/1.0 200 OK’);</code>

Then you login as administrator and set the ‘site preferences’ / ‘URL format’ as you want.
Eg: <code>section/id/title</code>

It works!

Moreover, the HTTP status code is 200. It means it’s OK for referencing on search engines.
You can check the HTTP status code on this page:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

I hope it will help someone.

—
Florent

Last edited by flox (2006-01-17 01:22:22)

#2 2006-01-17 07:55:28

Sencer

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From: cgn, de

Registered: 2004-03-23

Posts: 1,803

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Re: URL rewriting without mod_rewrite [solution]

Textpattern already explicitly sends a 200 OK header.

You will have a problem wih POSTs to your site (like comments) if you are using Apache.

The same/similar pocedure (including how to get comments working) is described on the weblog:

http://textpattern.com/weblog/135/partly-messy-clean-urls-without-modrewrite-experimental

#3 2006-01-17 13:31:23

flox

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Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 2

Re: URL rewriting without mod_rewrite [solution]

ok,

Thank you for this precision. I did not find this article.

—
Florent